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Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Onsite
At Aurecon, we are optimistic about the future. We are thinkers, solvers, and collaborators who work with our clients to deliver the infrastructure and assets that strengthen communities and create a sustainable future.
As the Lead Structural Engineer, Bridges, you will be responsible for leading the planning, design, and delivery of bridge and civil structures projects, providing technical leadership and ensuring engineering excellence throughout the project lifecycle. The role combines deep technical expertise with project leadership, client relationship management, commercial awareness, and team development to deliver innovative, safe, sustainable, and practical bridge engineering solutions.
Provide technical leadership for bridge and structural engineering projects, ensuring safe, compliant, innovative, and commercially sound design outcomes.
Lead the successful delivery of multidisciplinary projects, managing scope, resources, programme, budget, quality, and risk.
Build strong client relationships, provide trusted technical advice, and support business development through proposals, tenders, and industry engagement.
Lead, mentor, and develop engineers and technical professionals, fostering collaboration, capability growth, and a high-performance culture.
Manage project performance, governance, compliance, and technical and commercial risk to achieve successful project outcomes.
Champion safety, sustainability, and resilience principles across project delivery and engineering solutions.
Relevant Civil/Structural engineering qualifications and extensive bridge design and structural engineering experience
Strong knowledge of Australian bridge standards and road authority requirements.
CPEng or equivalent professional registration.
Proven leadership, stakeholder management, and project delivery capability.
Commercial, technical, and problem-solving expertise.
BIM and digital engineering experience desirable.
Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder engagement skills
We believe your career should be a rewarding adventure. You will tackle some of the world’s most complex infrastructure challenges, in an environment that supports your ambitions, where we hold ourselves, and each other, to the highest standards. Recognised by the AFR as a Best Place to Work in 2026, we embrace diverse perspectives, giving you the opportunity to make a real impact.
We are an engineering consultancy with more than 6,000 people across Australia, New Zealand and Asia. We believe the world needs people who can engineer possibilities; people who can create infrastructure that makes life better for people and the planet. That is why we are here – to bring ideas to life, the Aurecon way.
If this sounds like your next step, we’d love to hear from you. For recruitment adjustments, contact WorkplaceAdjustment@aurecongroup.com.
Our hiring decisions are made by people, not AI. We’re most interested in your individual thinking and experiences—so please ensure your application reflects your authentic perspective.